Qt-Server-Sent-Events-Demo

A Qt5 Server Sent Events (SSE) demo.

Build instructions

• cmake CMakeLists.txt
• make
• ./qt-sse-demo <URL>

Demo

Setup SSE server

This repo includes a simple SSE server demo in the server directory. To run it, you need NodeJS and Yarn installed:

• cd server
• yarn install
• yarn start

The demo server runs on port 3000 and publishes events on /events.

Demo time!

Start the Qt SSE demo with our SSE demo server as URL:

./qt-sse-demo http://localhost:3000/events

[dylan@desktop Qt-Server-Sent-Events-Demo]$ ./qt-sse-demo http://localhost:3000/events
Qt Server Sent Events demo, written by Dylan Van Assche.
Creating new Network::Manager
GET resource: QUrl("http://localhost:3000/events")
Received event from stream
"{\"timestamp\":\"Wed Jun 17 2020 19:09:17 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)\",\"message\":\"Hello World!\"}"
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Received event from stream
"{\"timestamp\":\"Wed Jun 17 2020 19:09:21 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)\",\"message\":\"Hello World!\"}"
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Received event from stream
"{\"timestamp\":\"Wed Jun 17 2020 19:09:26 GMT+0200 (Central European Summer Time)\",\"message\":\"Hello World!\"}"
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